10-08-2021, 06:08 PM
OK, the man for whom the Presidency was defined, and who defined what it means to be President:
GEORGE WASHINGTON
#4 in public persuasion
#2 in crisis leadership
#2 in economic management
#2 in moral leadership
#2 in international relations
#2 in administrative skills
#1 in relations with Congress
#2 in vision and setting an agenda
#14 in pursuing equal justice for all
#2 in context for the times
Of course he owned slaves... but several other Presidents did, too. That was normal for anyone from the South who had any economic status. Otherwise #1, #2, and #4.
AS I see it the only way in which Trump can be redeemed is if he redeems himself or if some acolyte compels America to become like his dream -- and a nightmare for everyone not part of the well-connected or those exempt due to extreme wealth, talent, or skill from having to meet the reality of a market.
...and how about the President who saved America from a scenario similar to that in The Man in the High Castle?
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
#1 in public persuasion
#3 in crisis leadership
#3 in economic management
#1 in moral leadership
#1 in international relations
#3 in administrative skills
#3 in relations with Congress
#3 in vision and setting an agenda
#9 in pursuing equal justice for all
#3 in context for the times
Need I say more about the Second Lincoln in the Civil War of modern industrial civilization?
GEORGE WASHINGTON
#4 in public persuasion
#2 in crisis leadership
#2 in economic management
#2 in moral leadership
#2 in international relations
#2 in administrative skills
#1 in relations with Congress
#2 in vision and setting an agenda
#14 in pursuing equal justice for all
#2 in context for the times
Of course he owned slaves... but several other Presidents did, too. That was normal for anyone from the South who had any economic status. Otherwise #1, #2, and #4.
AS I see it the only way in which Trump can be redeemed is if he redeems himself or if some acolyte compels America to become like his dream -- and a nightmare for everyone not part of the well-connected or those exempt due to extreme wealth, talent, or skill from having to meet the reality of a market.
...and how about the President who saved America from a scenario similar to that in The Man in the High Castle?
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
#1 in public persuasion
#3 in crisis leadership
#3 in economic management
#1 in moral leadership
#1 in international relations
#3 in administrative skills
#3 in relations with Congress
#3 in vision and setting an agenda
#9 in pursuing equal justice for all
#3 in context for the times
Need I say more about the Second Lincoln in the Civil War of modern industrial civilization?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.